| 词条 | Meena Upadhyaya |
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Meena Upadhyaya OBE is an Indian-born Welsh medical geneticist and an honorary distinguished professor at Cardiff University. Her research has focused on the genes that cause various genetic disorders, and also particularly neurofibromatosis type I and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. BiographyUpadhyaya was born in India. She entered an arranged marriage when she was 18 years old and joined her husband, an engineer, to the United Kingdom a year later. Having studied a bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Delhi,[1] she completed a Master of Science at the University of Edinburgh followed by a doctorate at Cardiff University.[2] Her husband died when she was 32 and their daughter seven, shortly before Upadhyaya finished her PhD.[1] Upadhyaya completed a fellowship with the Royal College of Pathologists in 2000, becoming one of the first people to do so in the field of medical genetics.[3] Her research career focused on genetic disorders, especially neurofibromatosis type I and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. She was involved in identifying the genetic mutations responsible for these two diseases and developed tests to aid in the diagnosis of more than 20 genetic diseases.[3] She has also researched the reasons that some people with neurofibromatosis type I develop malignant tumours and worked on the development of a rapid diagnostic test for genetic disorders.[4] Over her career, she authored more than 200 scientific articles and three textbooks and received awards from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (2009), the Inspire Wales Awards (2010), the European Neurofibromatosis Group (2013), and the Welsh Assembly (2011).[3] She was a professor in Cardiff University's Institute of Cancer Genetics and directed the All Wales Medical Genetics Service Research and Development Laboratory until her retirement in 2014, thereafter serving as an honorary professor at Cardiff.[4] She received an OBE in 2016 for "services to medical genetics and the Welsh Asian community".[4] She received St David Award in 2017 in Innovation, Science and Technology category for her outstanding contribution to medical genetics.[5] Meena became UK's first female British-Indian professor to receive Honorary Fellowship at University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2017.[6] She is listed as one of the 100 Wales's brilliant women by WalesOnline. [7] She also made to the list of 100 Welsh Women[8], created by Women's Equality Network, to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918.[9] She was awarded the prestigious fellowship of Learned Society of Wales in 2018.[10] Upadhyaya is also an advocate for women of ethnic minorities; she founded the Welsh Asian Women Achievement Awards, now Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association and the organisation Ethnic Minority Women in Welsh Healthcare. She sits on many committees focusing on equality, diversity and academia. References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/india-week-how-india-treats-7954237|title= India Week: How India treats its women by those who really know |first=Abbie|last=Wightwick|date=20 October 2014|publisher=WalesOnline|accessdate=1 April 2016}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Upadhyaya, Meena}}2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-22310502|title=Welsh Asian women's achievements celebrated with awards|publisher=BBC News|date=29 April 2013|first=Clare|last=Gabriel|accessdate=1 April 2016}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.acgs.uk.com/news-events/news/pioneering-medical-geneticist,-professor-meena-upadhyaya,-receives-obe/|title=Pioneering medical geneticist, Professor Meena Upadhyaya, receives OBE|date=12 January 2016|publisher=Association for Clinical Genetic Science|accessdate=1 April 2016}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/183193-pioneering-medical-geneticist,-professor-meena-upadhyaya,-receives-obe|title=Pioneering medical geneticist, Professor Meena Upadhyaya, receives OBE|date=5 January 2016|accessdate=1 April 2016|publisher=Cardiff University}} 5. ^St David Award Winners and Finalists 2017 http://www.wales.com/news-and-blog/st-david-award-winners-and-finalists-2017 6. ^Professor Meena Upadhyaya receives Honorary Fellowship at UWTSD https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-2017/uks-first-female-british-indian-professor-receives-honorary-fellowship-at-uwtsd.html 7. ^ A celebration of Wales's brilliant women http://100women.walesonline.co.uk/index.html 8. ^100 Welsh Women http://www.100welshwomen.wales/ 9. ^Meena Upadhyaya; 100 Welsh Women http://www.100welshwomen.wales/100-women/meena_upadhyaya/ 10. ^Learned Society of Wales in 2018 https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-2018/learned-society-of-wales-elects-new-fellow-from-uwtsd.html 18 : Indian geneticists|Welsh geneticists|Women geneticists|Academics of Cardiff University|Alumni of Cardiff University|University of Delhi alumni|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|Indian emigrants to Wales|Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists|Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|20th-century Indian women scientists|20th-century Indian scientists|Indian women biologists|20th-century Indian biologists|Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom |
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